Did You Know Prince is a Jehovah's Witness?
In An Evening with Kevin Smith, the director of Dogma and Clerks tells a story about going to Minnesota to meet the famous musician and shoot a documentary film. Smith goes on for nearly twenty minutes about Prince's foibles, his reclusiveness, his oddity, his playfulness and his religion.
As a Prince fan, I was not surprised to hear that Prince is a rather reclusive person who "likes to hold himself apart", surrounds himself with aides and deals with the world as a sort of purple petty tyrant.
The musician has been very famous for thirty years, releasing his first album in 1978, and moving swiftly up the pop charts to become one of America's most longstanding and recognizable musical performers.
When you are sure to be spotted and harangued at any public appearance, whether at a grocery store or a gas station, it makes sense to become reclusive. Besides, staying at home isn't so bad when your home is so big it's got its own name (and probably its own zip code).
Paisley Park is the name of Prince's version of the Neverland Ranch; his Hearst Castle. If you had your own "Park" and you could send other people to the store for you and send them to shop for your clothes, you would do it too. I know I would.
Similarly, if you had enough sway, power and prestige to secure a bevy of aides, agents and assistants, and you could give orders to them like a king, you just might do it. Most people would.
These pictures of Prince probably won't surprise anyone that understands how big the little purple guy has been over the last three decades.
What surprised me was the revelation that Prince is a Seventh Day Adventist. It's not the news that the musician is religious that surprises me. His music has long suggested a Christian belief system. But the ties to dogmas of Christianity always seemed rather loose considering the sexuality of Prince's music, the gender-bending outfits and fashions, and again the sexuality.
Call me dim-witted but I have a hard time putting together The Watchtower and "Sexy MF."
Prince can and should believe whatever makes him feel good. His religion is his business and I certainly do not mean to judge the man for his beliefs.
Yet some part of me resists imagining the purple clad musician knocking on my door, telling me about salvation and handing me a crappy 30 page magazine.
I think I would actually cry if that happened. I would shed real tears, and not because I would be laughing.
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Post a Comment@ Daniel -
Good one.
HELLO! Jehovah's Witnesses do NOT *go by the Bible* they are a cult like Scientology.
The Watchtower Society cult will not be able to keep young people - it is not a matter of "IF" but WHEN they leave - too much information out there that reveals all of the lies that the Watchtower has perpetuated.
The people who have been in for decades don't want to see - Why?
They find out that their life has been a waste - they find out that they have supported a corporate cult real estate (Watchtower) holding company.
The Watchtower wants their members to make no preparations because the "the end is near" yet the Organization makes plans for its future - buying and selling properties,etc
The Watchtower after 130 years of lies,deception and mind control, going door-to-door peddling childrens level literature is truly embarrassing to the 21st century.For decades,the burned out Jehovah's Witnesses have gotten few converts going door-to-door they mostly recruit friends co-workers and their own families and kids who go out the door as soon as they are old enough to leave home.
Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world.
Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cruel and oppressive cult. They following the strict moral laws of Bible which were followed by the first century Christians such as those in 1 Cor. 6:9, 10 and Acts 15:19,20, 28, 29. In modern society many faiths claiming to be Christian have rejected the moral standards of the Bible or have just giving lip service to them. Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, on the other hand, uphold those moral standards and one must live according to those biblical standard in order to be considered a Witness. One reason why the Witnesses have been the fastest growing Christian group in the US is because people who study the Bible and comparing it with what the Witnesses teach see that they are teaching exactly what the Bible teaches, including upholding the strict moral standards which are sorely lacking in most churches today.
Prince was a Seventh Day Adventist as a youth. His parents were Adventist and raised him in that faith. His parents later converted to the Christian faith of Jehovah's Witnesses. Prince left the Adventist church when he became famous, not being an active member of any church. His mother, a well known Jazz musician, urged him to study the Bible. After his mother died, he studied the Bible with Larry Graham, a Jehovah's Witness.Prince accepted the Bible truths he was learning and was baptized into the faith around the year 2006.
Prince converts to the Jehovah's Witnesses not good for him or for the fans.
Jehovah's Witnesses are run by the Watchtower society which is a cruel oppressive cult in every way.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses has instilled all kinds of nonsense in his head.Why do our celebrities get mixed up in theses apocalyptic cults?
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